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by prpl 1y ago
it tracks the sky. The exposures here are never longer than 30 seconds for the normal survey mode. They bounced around a lot, it was going to be 2 15s images so you can do cosmic ray rejection (and other things)
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by prpl 1y ago
People are discussing things that are tedious work. I think the conversion to Bazel from a makefile is much more tedious and error prone than the reverse, in part because of Bazel sandboxing although that shouldn’t make much of a difference
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by prpl 1y ago
I’ve successfully used LLMs to migrate Makefiles to bazel, more or less. I’ve not tried the reverse but suspect (2) isn’t so bad these days. YMMV, of course, but food for thought
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by prpl 1y ago
Not clear to me anyone “in charge” cares in any case. In fact, that may be the point.
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by prpl 1y ago
this discounts the likelihood that other breakthroughs are correlated with ITER in some way. The first transistor in Silicon Valley wasn’t made by Shockley.
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by prpl 1y ago
no but sometimes they are for demonstration/evaluation, though that wouldn’t usually make a press release
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by prpl 1y ago
i’ve been hit by 350V trying to bias a tube amp but it was low current (B+). Woke me up
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by prpl 1y ago
metadata bloat can be due to a few things, but it’s manageable. * number of snapshots * frequent large schema changes * lots of small files/row level updates * lots of stats The last one IIRC used to be pretty bad especially with large
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by prpl 1y ago
Reminds me of SUSY, string theory, the standard model, and beyond that, string theory etc… What is elegant as a model is not always what works, and working towards a clean model to explain everything from a model that works is fraught, hard
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by prpl 1y ago
I used to use xenon flashes to calibrate latencies to calibrate data streams. I had a few different SDR devices hooked up to consumer hardware, and a high resolution/accuracy (50ns) time device I could control a xenon flash with. I’d t
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by prpl 1y ago
The bond market, and blasé attitude towards national debt and default.
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by prpl 1y ago
the mastering of most shows and movies is shit today anyway, and the downmixing of that shit to -e.g. 2.1 is even worse.
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by prpl 1y ago
I view this as an another step in the push/pull between local things, remote things, local things remotely, thin clients, network partitioning, cloud, zero trust, etc... The last cycle I remember of this IMO is iPython -> Jupyterhub
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by prpl 1y ago
Production quality code is defensive. Probably trained on a lot of google code.
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by prpl 1y ago
We could actually just pay more money to public governmental employees, allow them to build careers (and raise families), and stop contracting out everything. This would also increase competition for such roles. How we got here is ultimatel
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by prpl 1y ago
>>> We’ve seen so many reports of celebrity scientists committing fraud at our most elite institutions Can you define "many"? 100k reports? 10k reports? 1k reports? 150 reports? 15 reports? What's the incidence? What
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by prpl 2y ago
I have a fond memory from ~1997 when my mom had a casserole dish in a hot oven she forgot about. For some reason, she decided she needed to cool it down quickly with a glass of water, and we were treated an impressive display of shattering
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by prpl 2y ago
The legal system is a single point of failure here without any apparent teeth. The only thing that makes sense is to start holding the underlings in contempt
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by prpl 2y ago
partition by sensor first, then timestamp (or the reverse if it makes sense). If they are avro, orc, or parquet, stage and register them directly with Iceberg (see AppendFilesCommit) and compact occasionally. Newer files (uncompacted) will
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by prpl 2y ago
AWS can do it for you with S3 tables.
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by prpl 2y ago
i went to middle school starting in ‘98 (7th grade). I used a hand saw, glass cutter, sandblaster, and drill press. That was just a quarter. The second quarter we had home-ec. Stitched and baked and maybe something else. In shop I made a bo
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by prpl 2y ago
maybe observing satellites, in real time, in multiple orbits, and yeah, maybe just free parking (and testing orbital transitions).
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by prpl 2y ago
I guess something other than a lawn mower is required to change farming
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by prpl 2y ago
This implies the other engineers were unsuccessful because they worked for government. The reality is the goalposts are being moved. Congress had set up all sorts of rules and regulations, and, most importantly, pay scales for public servan
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Team from Elon Musk's SpaceX to review air traffic control system(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by prpl 2y ago|2 comments
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by prpl 2y ago
There are tools that exist to clean up old flags, but of course you need to know they should be retired (if always off)or integrated into the baseline code (if always on)
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by prpl 2y ago
They are both fine. Your real question is whether or not you can better leverage LBNL or SLAC (ALS vs LCLS/SSRL). I think LBNL would be a bit better for optics specifically. If you need more compute access LBNL/Berkeley might be a
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by prpl 2y ago
Just use the webapp too, when possible. Remove all native apps on your phones. Don’t read emails.
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by prpl 2y ago
More succinctly - "So Sue them" It will take a long time to go through the courts, the courts may not care, and even if they do, you can usually appeal and drag your feet long enough that it doesn't matter. Oh, and bonus here
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by prpl 2y ago
I worked at a national lab for 11 years, including all 4 years of the previous term and through multiple government shutdowns. This is much, much more disarray. I no longer work work at a national lab, but am well connected with those who d

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